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reading vocabulary
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English
6th Grade
04/30/2018

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• sensory details detalles sensoriales
Definition
Sensory Details Definition. Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader's interest. If you want your writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are creating.
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• similarities similitudes
Definition
the state or fact of being similar.
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• textual evidence
Definition
Textual evidence is evidence from a text (fiction or nonfiction) that you can use to illustrate your ideas and support your arguments. All textual evidence should: Support a specific point.
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• rising action
Definition
In the rising action, a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest. The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax.
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• dialogue
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• plot
Definition
a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
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• opinion
Definition
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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• stanza
Definition
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
a group of four lines in some Greek and Latin meters.
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• summarize
Definition
give a brief statement of the main points of (something).
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• judgment
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1.
the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions
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• personification
Definition
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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• fantasy
Definition
the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.
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• events
Definition
a thing that happens, especially one of importance.
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• issue
Definition
an important topic or problem for debate or discussion.
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• elaborate
Definition
involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.
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evaluate
Definition
form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
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• nuances
Definition
subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression,
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• individual
Definition
single; separate.
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• genres
Definition
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
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• idioms
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a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
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